Bush Paid Pundit (USA Today), to promote "No Child Left Behind"

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(for anyone who thinks there is a liberal bias....or that Bush doesn't know how controlling the media helps him.....here is proof)

http://tinyurl.com/4yjyo
Bush Paid Pundit (USA Today), to promote "No Child Left Behind"
White House paid commentator to promote law
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY

Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.

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1. from the article: "The White house is not involved..." -- give me a break

more:

"The contract may be illegal 'because Congress has prohibited propaganda,' or any sort of lobbying for programs funded by the government, said Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. 'And it's propaganda.'

"White House spokesman Trent Duffy said he couldn't comment because the White House is not involved in departments' contracts."


"not involved in departments' contracts"? No, the White House just leads, cajoles, influences, pushes, molds, creates, and manhandles the departments. But when those departments do something illegal, they're not involved.

:eyes:

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2. thought he was a journalist

... by the way he appeared on the talking head shows. He'll continue to be cast on these shows beacause they're all repug yellow journalists.

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3. Notice it was a Bruva too...this is a big pile o stankin, steamin, green,

diarrhea textured, corn-studded crap.

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4. Williams, 45, a former aide to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

that line sums it up

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5. also see DU thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1129454&mesg_id=1129454

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6. It's illegal - whoever authorized this contract should be prosecuted

The contract may be illegal "because Congress has prohibited propaganda," or any sort of lobbying for programs funded by the government, said Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "And it's propaganda."

White House spokesman Trent Duffy said he couldn't comment because the White House is not involved in departments' contracts.

Ketchum referred questions to the Education Department, whose spokesman, John Gibbons, said the contract followed standard government procedures. He said there are no plans to continue with "similar outreach."

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7. but won't be

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8. must read

Free Pass From Congress

By Henry A. Waxman
Tuesday, July 6, 2004

http://tinyurl.com/6j699

In the past four years there has been an abrupt reversal in Congress's approach to oversight.

During the Clinton administration, Congress spent millions of tax dollars probing alleged White House wrongdoing. There was no accusation too minor to explore, no demand on the administration too intrusive to make.

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http://tinyurl.com/6j699